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What goes in Poland on 19th of July?

USA and Germany will not be exerting more pressure on Russia in spite of the risk that Moscow may use gas for political ends already this winter. Instead they want to offer compensation for Nord Stream 2, which may be conditional and hinge on fostering values such as the rule of law in the European […]

Current polls have shown that climate and energy policy is an important issue for a majority of the people in Germany. Nevertheless, the current focus of political discussions on climate change is not as productive as it should be – says Frank Steffe, Senior Associate Key Questions focusing on national and European policy at Agora […]

When making the decision to apply for the certification, Russians may have two goals in their mind. The first one is a quiet acceptance of the gas directive that they officially criticize and try to challenge at various tribunals. The second one is probing how Berlin, the German regulator BNetZa and the European Commission will […]

Francois Fillon, Karin Kneissel, Gerhard Schröder are the tip of the corruption iceberg, whose common denominator is Russian money, influence, „understanding” and energy projects. They are the perfect puppets, that not only serve the Kremlin propaganda, but also have real impact on policies – Mariusz Marszałkowski, editor at BiznesAlert.pl, writes.

The problems facing the Baltic Pipe project have led the public opinion to believe that Poland may reach a dead end, and be forced to sign a new Yamal contract with Gazprom. This will not happen thanks to decades of diversification. Plan A is being implemented and we have a plan B – Wojciech Jakóbik, […]

On the 10th of June, the Nord Stream 2 AG company announced it had completed the so-called „golden weld” on the B line of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. This means 1234 km of one of the pipe’s strings now constitutes an integral whole. However, the operational launch of even one line will not […]

Two weeks after the Biden administration waived congressionally mandated sanctions on Nord Stream AG, the company behind the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the first link of the subsea line is completed and ready for testing (Vesti.ru, June 4). But the Russian president knows it is too early for a […]

If Russia was not Russia I would trust their government announcements and would say that we need an agreement for hydrogen imports. But we need to remember about Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea, Donbass and many different issues. It is not that I do not want. We cannot blindly trust – Jean-Michel Glachant, Florence School of Regulation […]

The German Superwahljahr is in full swing. Last Sunday a state election in Saxony-Anhalt, the poorest state in the republic that is also struggling with lignite phase-out, took place. The election results are a conspicuous success of CDU’s new chairman Armin Laschet and the state’s Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff, whereas the Greens and AfD are […]